Thoughts for the New Master Mason One of the greatest honours that can upon your decision at this point. Should come to any man is to be raised to the you sit and assume the attitude of judgesublime degree of a Master Mason. This ment you will soon find that the “human honour has now been conferred upon you, equation” is present, and that the brothers and the high position will be exactly what around you are only “men” with all the you make out of it.
faults, or at best, come of the faults of or-
There is nothing forced upon any dinary manhood. As you become more man in Freemasonry. Everything you have involved, you will see the finer points in the done in your initiation, passing and raising men around you. has been done of your own volition. Your
You have reached a period in life
future Masonic career will depend entirely when you are expected to and should exupon yourself. If you “ask” you shall ercise discrimination regarding all you see “receive”. If you “seek” you shall “find”. If and hear, but the Ancient Mysteries taught you “knock” is shall be “opened” unto you.
their initiates “to see and hear and be si-
Some brother has been selected to lent”. If all Freemasonry exists for today is teach you in your “work” and from this to confer degrees, then has it reached the brother you have learned the letter of the time when, like a “sounding brass or a tinritual. If you have had a teacher that has kling cymbal” it “has a name to live but is led you on to the letter and past that to dead.” the meaning of that letter and its spirit as
You are urged, therefore, to decide
seen today in the potentiality of Freema- for yourself that you will seek to know what sonry, you will have much to be thankful this Craft means in its life its virility and its for.
spirit. Doing this, you will become a part A new world has now been opened to and parcel of the great body of Freema-
you. You will find everything moving right sonry and it will have assimilated you. along, and the first question you will be called upon to decide is this: will you sit on the side line and judge what you see and hear, or will you become a part and parcel I have included this is in full—a talk given of the activity and become assimilated by to the newly raised MM under the Grand the new world and life? Much will depend Lodge of Texas.
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